Jamie Zawinski Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.
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I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
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It merely confirmed in him his long-held belief that you should never believe anything anyone said without first checking it. Suspect everybody, had been for many years, if not his whole life, one of his first axioms.
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Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
